Klarinet Archive - Posting 000059.txt from 2008/08

From: "John Gates" <cadenza@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Re: Osmo Vanska
Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2008 13:21:15 -0400

Tony, I remember hearing a BBC broadcast of you and David Atherton playing
the Finzi Bagatelles. Must have been around 1968. I was a student at the
Royal College of Music at the time and student of Sidney Fell. I very much
enjoyed hearing and getting to know the Finzi through your broadcast with
David. Still some of the best music ever written for Clarinet and Piano.

-----Original Message-----
From: tony.pay@-----.com] On Behalf Of Tony Pay
Sent: Sunday, August 17, 2008 1:48 AM
To: klarinet@-----.org
Subject: Re: [kl] Re: Osmo Vanska

John Gates wrote:

>...David Atherton, who was SDSO are the early 80's. He was English but a
pianist, not a clarinetist.

Daniel Leeson <dnleeson@-----.net> wrote:

> That's the one, though I was informed by a reliable source that he was a
clarinetist.

He was both; though actually a much better pianist than clarinettist.
He was a clarinettist in the NYO with me, and then did all three --
clarinet, piano and conducting -- to about the same extent as a
student in Cambridge; though when I went there he was concentrating
much more on piano and conducting.

He was always a mover and shaker, founding the University Chamber
Orchestra and then, professionally, the London Sinfonietta, moving
into the mainstream repertoire as a staff conductor at Covent Garden
and then into the orchestral scene.

He hasn't had the success that he musically deserves, in my opinion,
being inclined to rub people up the wrong way.

Tony
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